Question

fast-food restaurant has a drive-through window and during peak lunch times can handle a maximum of 50 cars per hour with one person taking orders, assembling them, and acting as cashier. The average sale per order is $9.00. All employees earn $15/hour. A proposal has been made to add two workers and divide the tasks among the three. One will take orders, the second will assemble them, and the third will act as cashier. With this system it is estimated that 70 cars per hour can be serviced. Use productivity arguments to recommend whether or not to change the current system.

What is the productivity of the system 1 (one person)?

Group of answer choices

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15

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30

Answer 1

Cite chapter. A breakdown of GDP per head into labour productivity and the amount of labour used per person can be made. Thus, GDP per person (GDP/N) will be expressed as GDP per hour worked (GDP/H), a measure of labour productivity , times the number of hours worked per person (H/N), a measure of effort.

30